Loved itThe names. They gave us such a good book.
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The Names They Gave Us (2017)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive When it all falls apart, who can you believe in? Everything is going right for Lucy Hansson, until her mom’s cancer reappears. Just like that, Lucy breaks with all the constants in her life: her do-good boyfriend, her steady faith, even her longtime summer church camp job. Instead, Lucy lands at a camp for kids who have been through tough times. As a counselor, Lucy is in over her head and longs to be with her parents across the lake. But that’s before she gets to know her coworkers, who are as loving and unafraid as she so desperately wants to be. It’s not just new friends that Lucy discovers at camp—more than one old secret is revealed along the way. In fact, maybe there’s much more to her family and her faith than Lucy ever realized.
- ISBN:
- 9781408877814
- Length:
- 416 pages
Genres: romance, young adult
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Loved itit was a beautiful book i'm not gonna lie to you a lot of books like that are but you just have to be emotionally ready for it. i really loved how this book also talked about faith